On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 01:46 PM, Steven Noels wrote:
http://www.brandingkorea.com/data/board/TBBKD_SL/upload/ brand_community.pdf or http://216.239.53.100/ search?q=cache:Nz0oNDvblCYC:www.brandingkorea.com/data/board/TBBKD_SL/ upload/ brand_community.pdf+%22refers+to+as+consciousness+of+kind%22&hl=en&ie=U TF-8 if you want to read more.
Oh excellent, my copy came from a gated community. I asked one of the authors if I could pass along a copy. He just provided me with this quicker link:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JCR/journal/issues/v27n4/270402/ 270402.web.pdf
Every time somebody uses the work community, religion, relationship it makes my teeth hurt; so I was surprised to find something that pleased me to read.
That paper references a lot of obviously hard won models of what community is, so now I'm going to have to go read a mess of stuff.
I find it's amazingly rare to find anything about community that isn't moronic, simplistic, or romantic. Or worse argues that community is just another victim of modern life. I think quite the contrary that the net is a typhoon of community building.
- ben
